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Cisco CCNA 640-802 / CCENT Certification Exam Training :

Spotting And Troubleshooting OSPF Network Type Mismatches

By Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933

When you configure OSPF on a point-to-point Frame Relay subinterface, the OSPF network type will default to point-to-point.  That certainly makes sense! However, there can be a problem with such an interface when it attempts to form an adjacency with an OSPF-enabled interface that's running a different network type. In the following exhibit, R1 is running OSPF on its physical Serial0 interface, and R3 is running OSPF on its S0.31 point-to-point interface.

We already have a successful adjacency over this hub-and-spoke network between R1 and R2, so we must keep that in mind when discussing a potential solution to the current adjacency issue.

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I'll take this opportunity to introduce you to the show ip ospf interface command.

R1#show ip ospf interface serial 0
Serial0 is up, line protocol is up
  Internet Address 172.12.123.1/24, Area 0
  Process ID 1, Router ID 1.1.1.1, Network Type NON_BROADCAST, Cost: 64
  Transmit Delay is 1 sec, State DR, Priority 1
  Designated Router (ID) 1.1.1.1, Interface address 172.12.123.1
  No backup designated router on this network
  Timer intervals configured, Hello 30, Dead 120, Wait 120, Retransmit 5
    Hello due in 00:00:23
  Index 1/1, flood queue length 0
  Next 0x0(0)/0x0(0)
  Last flood scan length is 2, maximum is 2
  Last flood scan time is 0 msec, maximum is 0 msec
  Neighbor Count is 1, Adjacent neighbor count is 1
    Adjacent with neighbor 2.2.2.2
  Suppress hello for 0 neighbor(s)

R3#show ip ospf interface serial 0.31
Serial0.31 is up, line protocol is up
  Internet Address 172.12.123.3/24, Area 0
  Process ID 1, Router ID 3.3.3.3, Network Type POINT_TO_POINT, Cost: 64
  Transmit Delay is 1 sec, State POINT_TO_POINT,
  Timer intervals configured, Hello 10, Dead 40, Wait 40, Retransmit 5
    Hello due in 00:00:04
  Index 1/1, flood queue length 0
  Next 0x0(0)/0x0(0)
  Last flood scan length is 0, maximum is 0
  Last flood scan time is 0 msec, maximum is 0 msec
  Neighbor Count is 0, Adjacent neighbor count is 0
  Suppress hello for 0 neighbor(s)

See the problem?  The Hello and Dead timers don't match.  When you configure OSPF on a point-to-point link, the interface naturally defaults to an OSPF point-to-point network... and the hello and dead timers on that network type are 10 and 40, respectively.

We've got to change that before an adjacency can possibly form.  We have two options:

Use the ip ospf hello command to change the hello timer on R3 (If we change it on R1, we'll lose the adjacency we already have to R2)

Use the ip ospf network command to change R3's OSPF network type on that subinterface to non-broadcast, which will make it match R1's hello and dead timers

In this case, we'll use the ip ospf network command.

R3(config)#int s0.31
R3(config-subif)#ip ospf network ?
  broadcast            Specify OSPF broadcast multi-access network
  non-broadcast      Specify OSPF NBMA network
  point-to-multipoint  Specify OSPF point-to-multipoint network
  point-to-point       Specify OSPF point-to-point network

R3(config-subif)#ip ospf network non-broadcast

We'll verify the changes with show ip ospf interface....

R3#show ip ospf interface serial0.31
Serial0.31 is up, line protocol is up
  Internet Address 172.12.123.3/24, Area 0
  Process ID 1, Router ID 3.3.3.3, Network Type NON_BROADCAST, Cost: 64
  Transmit Delay is 1 sec, State DROTHER, Priority 0
  No designated router on this network
  No backup designated router on this network
  Timer intervals configured, Hello 30, Dead 120, Wait 120, Retransmit 5
    Hello due in 00:00:25

.... and shortly after that change, the OSPF adjacency between R1 and R3 comes up.  R3 sees R1 as the DR on this hub-and-spoke network, and R1 sees R2 and R3 as neither a DR nor a BDR - in other words, they're "DROTHERS".

R3#show ip ospf nei

Neighbor ID  Pri   State           Dead Time   Address         Interface
1.1.1.1           1   FULL/DR         00:01:36    172.12.123.1    Serial0.31

R1#show ip ospf neighbor

Neighbor ID Pri     State                 Dead Time   Address         Interface
2.2.2.2           0   FULL/DROTHER    00:01:51    172.12.123.2    Serial0
3.3.3.3           0   FULL/DROTHER    00:01:38    172.12.123.3    Serial0

We’ll take a look at more important OSPF Frame Relay details in the next installment of my exclusive Cisco CCENT / CCNA 640-802 certification exam tutorial series!

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